Topics - AI and Gaming

• Introduction, basic definitions, open AI problems in games
• Early automated control, and real-world problems that it addresses
• The Neuron model, with input data's dimensionality extension and reduction
• Neural Networks and backpropagation
• Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Neuroevolution
• Finite State Machines
• Pathfinding
• Procedural Content Generation (PCG)
• Visual novels
• Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Reinforcement Learning and Agents
• Using Unreal Engine for a simulation, Goal Oriented Action Planning
• "The Zone" of fun and immersion